Claude Code deletes conversations after 30 days

#1

Post by mieubrisse » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 9:04 AM UTC

Sharing this in hopes it saves other people the data loss I experienced:

CC's default setting is a 30-day data retention: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/59248

If you want to keep your transcripts, you'll need to update `cleanupPeriodDays` in your `settings.json`.

Re: Claude Code deletes conversations after 30 days

#2

Post by eimrine » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 9:29 AM UTC

And their interface agressively resists to idea of save the answer for furure consumption. No, I do not need that incredible slow pdf builder, just give me to download html.

Re: Claude Code deletes conversations after 30 days

#3

Post by johnsonfash » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 9:33 AM UTC

Apart from maybe that, once you start coding for days/weeks, after couple of compact compression, it fails to find conversation or important things discussed, even when the transcript exist.

Re: Claude Code deletes conversations after 30 days

#4

Post by jjice » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 1:08 PM UTC

eimrine wrote: post #2

And their interface agressively resists to idea of save the answer for furure consumption. No, I do not need that incredible slow pdf builder, just give me to download html.

I have it build self contained tools all the time and I've never had an issue getting it to let me download the standalone HTML page. Usually just a "Download" button on the artifact on the page UI screen (just confirmed with recent tool I had it build). Assuming you mean the claude.ai website interface.

Re: Claude Code deletes conversations after 30 days

#5

Post by sandcat_ » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 7:38 PM UTC

Another thing I found recently, kind of the opposite, is that /insights reads from a cache of previous findings, often several months old. So if you’re finding that your /insights are all old news, asking it to clear them out is one way to get more relevant results.